How (high chief) beautiful to view is this (high chief) gathering.
On the afternoon of the 16th, the day of the hand-shakings, Suatele, a high chief, despatched two boys across the island with a letter.
One old gentleman, a high chief, was seized with alarming symptoms of belly-ache whenever Mrs. de Coetlogon went her rounds at night: he was after brandy.
A high chief, even a wohi, would call himself without dishonor ke kauwa a ke 'lii nui, the servant of the king.
It is probable that there was only one high chief of this name, that he was the son of Umi, and was called Keawe the Great--Keawe nui a Umi.
The son of a high chief by a common woman is a low chief, or even a commoner, but the son of a chieftainess by a common man is a chief.
Thus a common man could never attain the rank of a high chief, for such were the descendants of the gods, while commoners were created out of other clay and designed to be servants to the chiefs.
At first sight such behavior must appear autocratic, to say the least, but it should be remembered that a high chief has it in his power fully to recompense those about him, and this without the payment of a penny.
After the decorating the party sat down to a small taumafataga (high chief lunch), after which they returned to town.
Once a high chief, one of the highest, bearing the somewhat lengthy name of Tuimalealiifono, came on a visit to Vailima.
They were translated by an interpreter, but fortunately my memory of the language helped me to follow the meaning, even though some of the 'high chief' expressions were beyond me.
Saturnalia at the death of a king or high chief in Hawaii, 421 sqq.
Again, if the blood of a high chief flowed on anything, though it were but a single drop, it rendered the thing sacred to him, so that it could be used by nobody else.
Samoa the daughter of a high chief is brought up with extreme care that she may be given virgin to her husband.
Moreover, the fork was tabu to every one but its owner, and if it belonged to a high chief, it had always a name of its own.
The titular spiritual chief (Roko Tui) was not a priest, although divine honours were paid to him, for the act of inspiration appeared to be thought derogatory to the dignity of a high chief.
They were married to their principal wife, and the rest went home to their friends, where they had not long to wait for husbands, since there was a certain prestige in marrying a woman who had belonged to a high chief.
In the Fijian mind it was but a step from offering gifts to a god and taking them to a high chief, and great feasts soon came to be considered incomplete without a human body to grace the meal.
The mourning nations selected as their representative a high chief, usually a distinguished orator, familiar with the usages and laws of the League, to conduct these ceremonies.
Johnson, and is himself a high chief of the Canienga nation.
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